SMS app that guards against missing messages?

[zanthal]

I've used several carriers, and no matter what, you end up losing text messages, they just disappear and never arrive.

And if you use text often that can be a pretty big problem.

Is there an SMS Android app that verifies if a message is received, and if after a certain period of time it is not received, sends it again automatically, until it is confirmed received?

Because if so, I'd like to get that app.

And if not, I hope there's an inspired developer interested in providing it.

Cheers

 

[Hadron]

You can turn on receipt notifications in most if not all apps. But I've never heard of an app that does what you want.

Of course if the delivery receipt didn't work then you'd end up text bombing the recipient. And some carriers charge for delivery receipts (even if there is no charge for the message itself), so it would have to be an optional feature.

 

[zanthal]

It's making me wonder, is there an actual reason why anyone would want to use SMS and MMS rather than a messaging app that utilizes only Mobile Data for it's connectivity?

Say, Skype or Facebook Messenger for example? Is SMS and MMS going to fade away?

 

[Hadron]

SMS is universal - you just need a phone (doesn't even need to be a smartphone). All of the other things you name require both parties to be using the same app. That's the main reason they cannot replace it.

And as SMS is part of the network standard it isn't going anywhere any time soon - I expect it to outlast many if not most of the Internet based message services.

Plus in much of the world it's effectively free (e.g. here in the UK most contracts include unlimited SMS sending, and when we hear of US networks getting away with charging to receive SMS we wonder why anyone puts up with that scam).

MMS, I admit, I have little use for...

 

[Clementine_3]

SMS is universal - you just need a phone (doesn't even need to be a smartphone). All of the other things you name require both parties to be using the same app. That's the main reason they cannot replace it.

And as SMS is part of the network standard it isn't going anywhere any time soon - I expect it to outlast many if not most of the Internet based message services.

Plus in much of the world it's effectively free (e.g. here in the UK most contracts include unlimited SMS sending, and when we hear of US networks getting away with charging to receive SMS we wonder why anyone puts up with that scam).

MMS, I admit, I have little use for...

All of that ^^^^
Most carriers/plans now have unlimited talk and text. Older plans may not and some of the MVNO's may not. My family uses MMS a lot actually, group texts w/pics of the kids are always popping up. Except when the iPhoners forget and use iMessage. But that's a discussion for another day...

 

[zanthal]

I see too many smartphones these days, makes me forget there are plenty of the standard kind still out there.

 

[mikedt]

I see too many smartphones these days, makes me forget there are plenty of the standard kind still out there.

Even with a smartphone, SMS can still have use, mainly because it is universal and not dependant on everyone using the same third-party messaging service, like Skype or WhatsApp or WeChat. .

Here almost everyone I know and see now uses WeChat, it has become rather universal. Main advantage of this is don't have to know their phone number, as that might change, and can exchange and give contact details, just by scanning a QR code, or placing them together if they got NFC.